A History of Applied Linguistics - From 1980 to the present

and his theory of underlying language proficiency (“Cummins’Iceberg”). He also works on literacy in bilingual settings. “Influen ...

Zoltán Dörnyei Zoltán Dörnyei is a leadingfigure in research on individual differences, in particular regarding motivation and a ...

Schumann, J. (1986)“Research on the acculturation model for second language acquisition”,Journal of Multilingual and Multicultur ...

religions in AL. This may be related to the fact that AL is largely an empirical discipline and that implies that beliefs have t ...

5 Most important articles and books in AL Communication in a discipline takes place mainly through books and jour- nal articles. ...

given the selection of informants that represent only a part of what might be thefield of AL. The journals mentioned were:Applie ...

In this section informants listed both journal articles and book chapters. There are 77 book chapters, so the majority of the pu ...

articles that are mentioned often, such as Selinker in IRAL, Firth and Wagner inMLJand Norris and Ortega inLL. It may have to do ...

Doughty, C. and Long, M. (eds) (2003)Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, New York: Basil Blackwell. (4) Gass, S. and Selink ...

Aptitude and Ultimate L2 Attainment, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publish- ing, mentioned by Rod Ellis. The books are spread over t ...

It could be argued that by setting up new book series and journals publishers define thefield to a considerable extent. In this ...

6 Main trends I Theoretical and methodological aspects In this chapter and the following one, the responses to the question“What ...

that can cover the roles, forms and functions of language and language use, even though that is exactly what its proponents clai ...

Applied Linguistics) and University of Boston Child Language Development conferences, as a cursory count of papers on the basis ...

and more social orientations are seen as meaningful alternatives. Others try to explain the reasons for the decline of GG. Micha ...

Several informants mention the lack of linguistic sophistication in recent AL research. Martin Bygate says: Afinal trend is the ...

philosophical background is beyond the scope of the present book. The rela- tivist position, defended by people like Block, Lant ...

As mentioned earlier, the problem with the Vygotskian approach is that it is a theory of development, but not specifically of la ...

On the one hand, it is irksome to find old ideas appearing in new packaging without knowledge, or acknowledgement, of their orig ...

imported from other disciplines like sociology, anthropology, psychology and neuroscience. They range from grammaticality judgme ...